GCSE CHEMISTRY - Revision Questions - Acids - Alkalis - pH - Neutralisation - Salts - Titration

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Acids
1	What is an Acid?	Answer
2	How did Arrhenius define an Acid?	Answer
3	How did Lowry and Brønsted define an Acid?	Answer
4	According to Lowry and Brønsted, Is Water an Acid or a Base?	Answer
5	Give one Example of a Strong Acid?	Answer
6	What does Strong Acid mean?	Answer
7	What does Weak Acid mean?	Answer
8	Give one Example of a Weak Acid.	Answer
9	What is the Difference between a Strong Acid and a Concentrated Acid?	Answer
10	How can Magnesium show the Difference between a Strong and a Weak Acid?	Answer
11	Do you get More Product from a Strong or a Weak Acid?	Answer
12	Give one Property of an Acid.	Answer
13	Give two types of Substance which will React with an Acid.	Answer
14	Give one Use of an Acid.	Answer

Sulfuric Acid - The Contact Process
15	Name two Raw Materials used to make Sulfuric Acid?	Answer
16	Write the Balanced Equation for the reaction between Sulfur and Air.	Answer
17	Write the Balanced Equation for the formation of Sulfur Trioxide.	Answer
18	Which Catalyst is used for the formation of Sulfur Trioxide?	Answer
19	What effect does Temperature have on the formation of Sulfur Trioxide?	Answer
20	What effect does Pressure have on the formation of Sulfur Trioxide?	Answer
21	How is Sulfur Trioxide turned into Sulfuric Acid?	Answer
22	Give two Uses of Sulfuric Acid?	Answer
23	What effect does Concentrated Sulfuric Acid have on Glucose?	Answer

Alkalis
24	What is an Alkali?	Answer
25	What is the Difference between an Alkali and a Base?	Answer
26	Give one Example of a Base.	Answer
27	Give one Example of a Strong Alkali.	Answer
28	Give one Example of a Weak Alkali.	Answer
29	Give one Property of an Alkali.	Answer
30	Give one Use of an Alkali.	Answer

pH
31	What does pH measure?	Answer
32	What is the pH of a Strong Acid?	Answer
33	What is the pH of a Strong Alkali?	Answer
34	What is the pH of a Neutral Solution?	Answer
35	What colour is Universal Indicator in a Weak Acid?	Answer
36	What colour is Universal Indicator in a Strong Alkali?	Answer
37	What colour is Universal Indicator in a Neutral Solution?	Answer

Neutralisation and Salts
38	Give two types of Substance which will Neutralise an Acid.	Answer
39	What happens when an Acid is Neutralised?	Answer
40	Give the Equation for the Reaction of Hydrochloric Acid and Sodium Hydroxide.	Answer
41	Which Acid and Alkali would you use to make Potassium Sulfate?	Answer
42	What is the Ionic Equation for Neutralisation?	Answer
43	Which Acid and Base would you use to make Copper(II) Chloride?	Answer
44	How would you make Pure Crystals of Copper(II) Chloride?	Answer
45	Which Acid and Carbonate would you use to make Copper Sulfate?	Answer
46	How would you make Pure Crystals of Copper Sulfate?	Answer
47	What is Precipitation?	Answer
48	Give one Example of a Reaction which forms a Precipitate?	Answer

Titration
49	What is a Titration used for?	Answer
50	What is the End Point of a Titration?	Answer
51	Which Indicator would you use in an Alkali?	Answer
52	Which Indicator would you use in an Acid?	Answer
53	Why is Universal Indicator not used?	Answer
54	How do you make Salt Crystals that are Free from Indicator?	Answer
55	What is a Burette?	Answer
56	What is a Pipette used for?	Answer
57	What is a Conductivity a measure of?	Answer
58	What Graph would you draw to use Conductivity to find the End Point?	Answer
59	What Graph would you draw to use the Amount of Heat to find the End Point?	Answer